The biggest problem is that they are using historical returns, that means that they are using.
- 1.8% for one year
- 20.4% for 3 years.
But you aren't modeling a 180,000 investment for three years. You have a 5,000 investment for 36 months another 5,000 for 35 months...
You have to know the interest rates for each of the 36 months....but you don't know them